Welcome to DANETV

Danish Center for Verification of Climate and Environmental Technologies, DANETV, offers independent testing of technologies and products for the reduction and monitoring of
environmental and climate impacts with in the following technology areas:

Materials, waste and resources

Environmental technologies for water treatment and monitoring

Energy efficiency and production

Environmental technologies for air cleaning and monitoring

Environmental technologies for soil and groundwater remediation and
monitoring

News:

Great interest for the EU verifications

There is a lot ongoing activity under the EU's verification pilot program see
here
.

Verifications carried out with Danish companies are described in information material from EU

EU has published a folder about the increased marked potential related to an environmental verification. It is described how verifications were carried out using technology invented
by the Danish companies Adept Water Technologies and Dall Energy. For more information see
here
.

Movie regarding DANETV verifications

DANETV has in collaboration with the Danish Environmental Protection Agency made a movie about verifications.
In the movie Mosbaek A/S and Rokkedahl Energy present their technology and explains why they have chosen to go through with a verification and what impact it have had on their business. See the movie
here

Environmental technology verification: an emerging discipline

Hopes are high for ETV - environmental technology verification. This
emerging practice can help the developers of eco-innovative technologies
gain market acceptance by providing an independent assessment of the
veracity of their claims about the performance and environmental benefits of
their technologies. This verification can be used for many purposes: to
provide evidence to the first customers and to investors that the technology
really does what it claims, to differentiate from competing technologies, to
avoid repeating the same tests for different customers or to support a bid
for a public contract.

Read articles from ETV Stakeholder Forum, which took place in Hannover, Germany, 7-8 April 2014.
link
and
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ETA Denmark A/S now heads the
Danish EU ETV verification body

As stated in the press releases from the Danish Standard, DS
Certification and DNV, Danish Standards will transfer the majority of its
activities in DS Certification to Det Norske Veritas, DNV. The sale will
help to strengthen Danish Standards other businesses while ensuring that DS
Certification have better opportunities to meet the growing international
competition and expand its market position.

It is solely a sale of the certification body, i.e. issue of certificates
to companies or for products. The remaining activities continues in ETA-Danmark
A/S, which is a subsidiary 100 % owned by Danish Standards.

ETA Denmark maintains the accreditation to issue verification of
environmental technologies ( ETV ). This is continued in cooperation with
the DANETV partners, and both ETA-Danmark and DANETV are pleased in being
able to continue the well-established and good cooperation.

ETA Denmark issue national approvals - MK and VA approvals - for building
products and is accredited and notified to issue European Technical
Assessments (ETA’s) on the basis of the Construction Products Regulation.

- We are pleased that ETA Denmark will continue as a wholly owned
subsidiary of Danish Standards. It supports our Danish anchor and our vision
to be recognized for contributing to the improvement and quality in the
Danish business community and society by strengthening our customers'
credibility and competitiveness, says Thomas Bruun, ETA Denmark.

DS Certification accredited as
Danish verification body

DS Certification has in close cooperation with DANETV obtained
accreditation as Verification Body for the three technology areas covered by
the EU ETV Pilot Programme: Materials, waste and ressourcer, Water and
Energy. In addition the accreditation covers verification of technologies in
the areas of Air, Soil and groundwater, Cleaner production and processes and
Environmental technologies for agriculture. It is expected that the four
latter technology areas by time will be included in the EU ETV Programme.

Despite DS Certification have five other verification bodies obtained the
accreditation, and more are to come.

Global ETV Operator Network

DANETV has started a network for ETV operators. The purpose of the
network is to enhance cooperation between the Environmental Technology
Verification (ETV) operators of the world. This network will operate in
parallel with an International Working Group on ETV (IWG ETV).

The purpose of the network is to share information on the national and
international ETV activities as well as share Best Practices and use each
other as external ETV experts. We will work on possibilities to perform
verification in cooperation in order to enhance mutual recognition and will
support the development of an ISO ETV standard.

The participants are ETV operators, who have hands-on experience in
performing verifications or desire to achieve this, either as verification
agent for the national ETV programme, verification body or test body. At the
moment the network covers organisations as Battelle in US, Chinese Society
for Environmental Sciences, GLOBE Performance Solutions in Canada and
several organisations from the EU among others DHI and DS Certification from
DANETV, VVT from Finland, IVL from Sweden, PLANETA from Spain and LNE from
France.

The network meets virtually every second month and is open for other
interested participants. If interested in the network please write an email
to mta@dhigroup.com

Open Letter on ETV handed out at EUROPE INNOVA 2012 Congress
23-24 October in Copenhagen

The congress topic was Stress test of innovation policy in Europe.
The theme of the congress was 1) SME Innovation Support Programmes, 2)
Commercial Exploration of Knowledge and Inventions and 3) Cluster Policy and
Cluster Programmes. The congress is arranged by Danish Ministry of Science,
Innovation and Higher Education in collaboration with European Commission’s DG
Enterprise and Industry and other Director Generals of the European Commission.
More than 700 policy makers, programme owners, cluster managers, project
managers, enterprises, researchers, journalists, students and innovation policy
experts from 50 countries all over the world participated. More information on
the congress can be found
here.

The open letter on ETV was distributed to all participants. The letter is
entitled Accelerating Innovation Acceptance by VERIFICATION and
can be found here.

Joint and co-verification presented at the International Water
Association (IWA) Congress and Exhibition in Busan, Korea, September 2012

The work on joint and co-verification performed under the EU AdvanceETV
project was presented in a poster session on the congress. In preparation of the
poster participated the involved verification bodies from US, Canada and Denmark
as well two technology vendors. The poster has been published at IWA Water Wiki!

A Comprehensive Guide for Proposers to EU
Environmental Technology Verification Pilot Programme is now available

AdvanceETV conference in Brussels 22-24. May 2012 - ETV in EU
and internationally

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DANETV in the magazin WaterCanada

DANETV has contributed to an article in the magazin WaterCanada (watercanada.net).
The article in concerning international recognition of verification seen from a
Canadian perspective. See the full article
here.

Danish EPA held conference on ETV together with the DANETV

Due to the launch of the EU ETV pilot programme Danish EPA and DANETV held a
conference on ETV in Eigtveds Pakhus 29. February 2012. The presentations are
now available
here (mainly in Danish).

DANETV has visited ETV programmes
in Asia

DANETV partners from DHI has visited ETV programmes in Japan, Korea and
Philippines as well as the organisation responsible for implementing an ETV
programme in China. The focus of the meetings was cooperation on verifications.
If your technology ready for verification and is interested in the Asian
markets, we might be able to help you. For more information look
here.

DANETV and the Danish EPA host conference on ETV 29. February
in Copenhagen

DANETV and the Danish EPA hosts on the occasion of the launch of the EU ETV
pilot programme a conference on Environmental Technology verification on
29. February in Eigtveds Pakhus in Copenhagen.

The programme is to be found
here
(in Danish only). For registration send an email to Mette Tjener Andersson
mta@dhigroup.com before 15. February.

DELTA, performer of reliability and environmental testing,
is new partner in DANETV

DANETV was established by four GTS companies in 2008 and now DELTA has become
the fifth partner with a special expertise in reliability and environmental
testing.

DELTA has some of the best Danish testing facilities for EMC (Electromagnetic
Compatibility), temperature, solar radiation, humidity, salt mist, water,
vibration, shocks, impact and other environmental conditions - all of them being
able to affect product performance and life expectancy.

EU launches EU ETV pilot programme

The EU ETV programme covers the technology areas of 1) water treatment and
-monitoring, 2) materials, waste and resources and 3) energy technologies.

DS Certification will in cooperation with DANETV apply for accreditation under the EU ETV pilot programme, but
will continue to offer verification under the original DANETV technology areas;
water, air, energy and agriculture.

DANETV participation in AquaMatch during Amsterdam Water Week

If interested you can meet DANETV at the matchmaking event during Amsterdam Water Week, AquaMatch on 3 November. Homepage of AquaMatch.

Newsletter from AdvanceETV, October 2011

Read the latest news from AdvanceETV, an EU-supported project promoting the international cooperation about ETV.
Read newsletter.

Newsletter from AdvanceETV, April 2011

Read the latest news from AdvanceETV, an EU-supported project promoting the international cooperation about ETV. Read newsletter.

News about EU ETV from an international conference in Brussels

At the AdvanceETV conference 24th to 26th of May 2011 the European Commission presented the plans for the upcoming ETV pre-programme, which is launched in autumn 2011. Another issue discussed at the conference was how to improve the cooperation and coordination between the ETV initiatives in Asia, North America and Europe. Approximately 75 people from 13 different countries participated in the conference demonstrating a broad interest for the ETV concept.

ETV in a global perspective

Change of wings on the scene of international ETV cooperation
The environmental technology verification (ETV) program run by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has withdrawn from the international co-operation on ETV. With the current establishment of new ETV programs in Europe and in Asia, the emphasis in international ETV cooperation is accordingly changing to achieve mutual recognition of ETV data among the programs remaining in the cooperation and supporting the exploitation of innovative environmental technologies in Asia, Canada and Europe. The program for the upcoming workshop on international ETV cooperation in Bilbao has been adjusted accordingly.

Improved cooperation on environmental technology verification, ETV

An international workshop with participants from Europe, the US, Canada, the Philippines, Japan and Korea scheduled for October 2010 in Bilbao, Spain, will test road maps for cooperation on ETV between different ETV programmes. Road maps for co- and joint verification will be tested with case data aiming at improved and internationally acceptable cooperation models. See the programme for the workshop here. Participation in the meeting is by invitation only, but meeting reports and final road maps will be published.

First phase of a European Environmental Technology Verification program is now decided

The European Commission has now decided that a European Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) pre-program will be launched, expected to be operational from early Summer 2012. The EU ETV program will operate in parallel with the existing ETV programs in e.g. the US, Canada, the Philippines, Japan and Korea.
The EU ETV pilot program will initially be covering 2-3 broad environmental technology areas and be based in volunteering member states, but allowing for environmental technologies from all parts of the EU being verified. During early 2010, member states will have the opportunity to offer their participation in the
pilot program, primarily through support to accreditation of verification bodies for operation of the EU ETV pilot program. Concurrently, the final selection of technology areas will be done.

The EU Commission is expecting to provide partial funding for initiating the EU ETV
pilot program and in particular for supporting small and medium sized enterprises entering the ETV program. The EU ETV
pilot program will be reassessed after a period of operation for potential expansion with respect to numbers of member states and technology areas involved, and also to the need for EU legislation supporting the EU ETV acceptance by the member states.

The launching of the EU ETV initiative will support verification of environmental technologies according to harmonized European methods, it also will enhance the cooperation on joint verification and mutually accepted technology verifications already established on a project basis with the US and Canada, and will accordingly provide additional opportunities for Danish environmental technology providers for entering new markets supported by credible documentation for the performance of their products.